Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three countries the President plans to visit, more people want to meet him than time or space can accommodate. The problem is especially acute in Ireland: just about every ambulatory person in the country, it seems, wants to shake the hand of the first U.S. President of 100% Irish descent. Inevitably, a lot of toes are going to get tramped on, literally and figuratively. Said a presidential aide who went to Ireland to make preparations for the visit: "The man responsible for deciding who does and who does not get invited to the official reception might as well leave Ireland...
...before dawn on Pentecost, the great Christian feast that celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus' Apostles. In the cool June night, 5,000 people stood watch in the moonlit piazza of St. Peter's. Some prayed; some chatted; some-Rome being what it is-eyed their neighbors for the bulge of a wallet, the unguarded clasp of a handbag. Most of those at the vigil looked often to the lighted windows on the top floor of the Vatican Palace. There the life of Pope John XXIII was slowly, inevitably, ebbing away...
...Gaullist leanings had made him a target of a bombing by Secret Army terrorists. L'Express concluded: "This vision is one which haunts De Gaulle's meditations, and it would reconcile two heretofore an tagonistic principles-monarchy and republic-in a single legitimacy, that of royal descent and universal suffrage...
Kansas City and Boston shared the lead for a while, but now have begun their descent. Both are three games away from first, and in both cases the cause is clear: a demonstrated lack of starting pitchers. It has been the reliefers on both clubs. Bill Fischer of the A's, and Dick Radatz of Boston, who have been saving the wins. But Fischer and Radatz cannot pitch every night, and neither team shows signs of developing a top-notch starter...